Making this
possible is a remarkable initiative from the Tata Group that
has changed the lives of thousands of adults in different parts
of India. The 'computer-based functional literacy' (CBFL) programme
is a new-age solution to an age-old problem, and one that has
the potential to lift our country's literacy rate in record
time. Born of the Tata Group's ever-enduring commitment to community
causes and bred by its expertise in information technology,
this is a project as novel in methodology as it is ambitious
in scope.

The
problemNearly 350 million
Indians cannot read or write

The
potentialThe CBFL project can make 90% of India functionally literate
in three to five years